Trump: media, public opinion and spiral of silence

Authors

  • Fernanda Magnotta Unifesp
  • Victor Grinberg Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2017v24n38p396

Abstract

After a historic presidential election that lead Donald Trump to be 45th president of the United States, many political scientists analyzed the entire course of presidential candidates' candidacy since the primaries to understand what prompted opinion polls to point to a different outcome. This work seeks to explore the events of this election since the announcement of the candidacies from the perspective of the Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann’s spiral of silence theory and adjacent concepts, seeking to interpolate the role of the media, the profile of the electorate and the influence of these factors on the opinion public in the election.

Author Biographies

Fernanda Magnotta, Unifesp

Fernanda Magnotta é doutoranda e mestre pelo PPGRI San Tiago Dantas (UNESP / UNICAMP / PUC-SP). É especialista em Globalização e Cultura (FESP-SP) e Bacharel em Relações Internacionais (FAAP). Seus principais focos de pesquisa são relações internacionais e análise da política externa, especialmente voltadas aos Estados Unidos. Seus campos de interesse acadêmico são tradições e ideologias políticas e tomada de decisão dos EUA. Atualmente é professora e coordenadora do curso de Relações Internacionais na FAAP. Fernanda é autora do livro "As ideias importam: o excepcionalismo norte-americano no alvorecer da superpotência" (2016) e também é pesquisadora do Núcleo de Estudos e Análises Internacionais (NEAI) do IPPRI / UNESP e do Núcleo de Estudos sobre a Política Externa dos Estados Unidos (NEPEU) da PUC-SP. Recentemente, foi a chefe de delegação do Brasil na Cúpula de Juventude do G-20, na China, acompanhou as eleições presidenciais dos Estados Unidos, em Ohio, a convite do Consulado norte-americano em São Paulo e foi selecionada pelo Programa W30 da UCLA / Banco Santander como uma das 30 mulheres mais destacadas em gestão acadêmica no mundo.

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Victor Grinberg, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado

Especialista em Mídia, Política e Sociedade pela Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo (FESP-SP), certificado em estudos de Marketing Digital e professor de Relações Internacionais e Ciências Econômicas da FAAP.

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2017-12-04

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Magnotta, F., & Grinberg, V. (2017). Trump: media, public opinion and spiral of silence. Esboços: Histories in Global Contexts, 24(38), 396–409. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2017v24n38p396

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Vol. 24 No. 38 (2017): Dossiê: Os Estados Unidos na Era Trump

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